🎟️ Tickets are still available for today's event at 6pm on 'Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment'!

Book to attend online or in person: eventbrite.co.uk/e/regulatory-m…

Represents strong pushback from UK unis who see Turing as competing rather than adding to them, and report expresses unease around the policy role of the institute, its unclear relationship to gov, & with whose voice it speaks with (rather than facilitating others to speak).

Not first time that this has been considered under the GDPR, but Irish DPA has previously stated (last year) that data subjects cannot obtain erasure, but can only append records saying they are no longer Roman Catholic. dataprotection.ie/en/dpc-guidanc…

Reminder: Tomorrow in person and online at UCL Faculty of Laws, see Margot Kaminski Jennifer Cobbe Andrew Strait and me in discussion on algorithmic assessment and the whole array of EU, US and private governance that is emerging. tickets: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

If you look between any two keys on your keyboard, you may find pathogens including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridiumdifficile, vancomycin-resistantenterococci and Escherichia coli ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

also it seems like they released it under an Apache 2.0 license, so Microsoft can't even DMCA it from Hugging Face. if HF take it down from the many mirror uploads, the question should be — why? (read more about model marketplace moderation in our paper! osf.io/preprints/soca…)

A new piece of mine on privacy’s inability to manage dataset economies in the facial recognition context. I use the idea of the 'operational image' to show how data privacy's theory of images (and data generally) is wrong: cambridge.org/core/books/cam…

Peace, Bruv What'sApp uses the Signal Protocol to protect the contents of comms--what you say. But it doesn't protect things like your contact list, profile name, who's in a group chat, who's messaging whom, etc. Signal protects all of these. This is a very important differentiator.

We are hosting a hybrid event on 'The European Court’s Climate Change Judgment: What the Court Really Said and what it means for Climate Change Litigation' UCL Faculty of Laws

with Veronika Fikfak Sonam Gordhan Maria Lee George Letsas & Lisa Vanhala.

Join us eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-european…

📢Travel fellowships available to attend the Summer Research Institute on Security and Privacy at EPFL!
Check the program here: suri.epfl.ch
and apply here: forms.gle/3CL6j6v648R5fr…

come listen to Patrick Traynor Oana Goga Reza Shokri Clémentine Maurice lucy qin Anwar Hithnawi

STARTING IN 1 HOUR! Be sure to tune in to this discussion on global AI governance, co-convened by Georgetown Law Tech Institute Harvard Center for African Studies & Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society fellow Bulelani Jili

cyber.harvard.edu/events/global-…

What can we learn about the different regulatory regimes concerning AI?

Join UCL Faculty of Laws Regulatory Models for Algorithmic Assessment to find out.

WITH: Margot Kaminski Michael Veale @[email protected] Jennifer Cobbe Andrew Strait
WHEN: 25 April 6:00 –7:30 pm
WHERE: UCL, London
BOOK: tinyurl.com/mu46z47c

this is an extremely good hire

News alert! We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Janaki Srinivasan as Associate Professor in Digital South Asian Studies. This is a joint post with Oxford School of Global & Area Studies. She will also join the governing body of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. Find out more: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/as…

Would be useful for running external workshops if these devices were portable and could be hired from the uni.

satire is dead

liz truss is a true pioneer in unpopular populism bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…